acaroar

14th century. From an earlier *acaronar, from a carón (“side by side”) + -ar, a verbal suffix.

• IPA^(key): /akaɾoˈar/

acaroar (first-person singular present acaroo, first-person singular preterite acaroei, past participle acaroado)

1. (transitive) to place next to

   Synonyms: achegar, agarimar, arrimar

2. (transitive) to shave

   Synonyms: arrentar, cercear, rentear

3. (transitive) to delimite, to demarcate
   • 1357, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 139:

     afforo [...] a meatade de toda essa minna binna, con o herdamento que ias a par dela [...] con a meatade do lagar et garrote que y esta assy commo esta acaroada de muro

     I rent you [...] half of my vineyard, with the possessions that are adjacent to it [...] with half of the winepress that is there, as it is delimited by a wall

4. (transitive) to plough next to the limits of a property
5. (pronominal) to come close to

• A Caroada

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “acaroa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acaroar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “acaroar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “acaroar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acaroar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN